797824 - Non ANSI Windows username causing cert8.db error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 336829

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Kerem Kat]

Attachment: msgbox.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.79 Safari/537.4

Steps to reproduce:

Launch firefox in Windows from a user account containing non-ANSI 'ğ' character.


Actual results:

A message box showing the following text with only an OK button: Could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is ... (q.v. attachments)
Firefox is not allowing browsing.

Upon inspection with procmon, firefox seems to be calling CreateFileA method, while it should presumably call CreateFileW for unicode support.


Expected results:

Firefox should allow browsing.

Comment 1

[Kerem Kat]

Attachment: nonworking api call

Comment 2

[Kerem Kat]

Attachment: working api call

Comment 3

[Kerem Kat]

Files in question are cert8.db and cert7.db